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#14301045
This is disturbing, how could her own family? . . . what the hell India?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425056/Indian-woman-20-tortured-lynched-family-boyfriend-beheaded-horrific-honour-killing.html
Indian woman, 20, tortured and lynched by her family and her boyfriend beheaded in horrific honour killing
A young Indian woman was beaten to death by members of her own family and her boyfriend beheaded in an horrific honour killing after they were lured back to their village thinking were going to be allowed to marry.

Nidhi Barak, 20, a fine arts student, and Dharmender Barak, 23, who was studying at technical college, were killed last night as locals in Gharnavati village in the Indian state of Haryana watched on.

The pair had eloped to nearby Delhi on Tuesday because their families did not approve of their relationship.
But they had been lured back with promises that they would not be harmed and would finally be allowed to marry.

Miss Barak's parents and uncle have been arrested and police are now trying to trace her brother and other family members who disappeared missing since the crime.
According to police the couple were tortured for several hours at Miss Barak's home before she was beaten to death in full public view.

Dharmender Barak was beaten and his arms and legs broken, before he was beheaded. His body was allegedly dumped near his family's home at a public square in the village.

Police, who had been alerted by a villager, reportedly caught Miss Barak's family cremating her body on a pyre.

Her half-burnt body and that of Dharmender Barak have been sent for a post-mortem.

Local police chief Anil Kumar said: 'While murdering the boy they also beheaded him.

'We have arrested her father, mother and uncle and we are looking for her brother, a friend and driver of the car in which the couple were brought back to her home in Gharnavati village.

'Both belonged to the same village and the same caste. It is an honour killing but the murder was not approved by society.'
India has for centuries seen killings that often target young couples who have relationships of which their families, clans or communities, particularly in traditional rural areas, disapprove.

Reasons for disapproval are numerous, but they sometimes include having relationships outside of their caste or religion.

The killings are carried out by relatives to protect the family's reputation and pride.

Police in Haryana have been conducting a campaign against honour killings in the state, where the sex-gender ratio is skewed in favour of men because of an outlawed but still existing tradition of female infanticide.

'We hold seminars and our women officers visit villages but the ultimate weapon against the scourge of honour killings is (more) education,' Kumar said.

India's Supreme Court said in 2010 that the death penalty should be given to those found guilty of honour killings, calling the crime a barbaric 'slur' on the nation.

There are no official figures on honour killings in India, but the All India Democratic Women's Association says its research shows about 1,000 such cases nationwide a year.

#14301055
It'll be impossible to figure out what exactly was the point of all that, until someone can reveal what the motive behind these killings was. It seems very strange to me that someone could be targeted and killed even though their marriage was within the same caste and clan.

This doesn't look like what people might expect an honour-killing type murder to look like.
#14301077
fuser wrote:Rei, in various places you are not supposed to marry within your clan (gotra) as supposedly people belonging to same gotra are brothers and sisters and this will be akin to incest.

Oh, right, that. I assume that this will have something to do with the khaps and their ban on so-called 'incest', then.

Someone really needs to hurry up and abolish the khaps, because let's be real, as a general rule, any time a bureaucracy usurps power in a community and starts banning same-clan marriages, it usually means that a massive wealth transfer is going to take place. Money will flow into the hands of the bureaucracy, and the bureaucracy will have you abolishing your own clan, engaging in mass exogamy, and killing your own daughters and cousins when they disagree. It is pernicious.

I wonder why that behaviour appeared in some parts of India and not others. It seems really aberrant to me, since mass exogamy obviously goes against what usually would be expected in a rural Asian society, for the simple reason that it's economically insane for everyone except those at the top who are enforcing that policy.

What are the key differences between the parts of India that are controlled by khaps, and the parts that are not? It must be possible to analyse this and find out what causes it.
#14301550
I don't care where you're from or what your beliefs are this is just a complete lack of humanity,or maybe it is a result of too much humanity. Either way it is almost unimaginable. How can a supposedly intelligent species evolve to a point where they torture their own offspring in a prolonged and savage attack? I could understand maybe if they shot or hung her, of course this would still be shocking, but a lynching? These people need to be liquidated.

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